Firstly expect to be taken on an amazing journey with unique, cute and touching illustrations and a great message.
This book combines some interesting, digestable facts with poetic truths about life.
Some of those earlier facts, those that led to the title of this book, do not entirely and smoothly blend with the narrative but the book catches up right after.

Thank you so much to DK Children’s Books and Netgalley for the ebook to read and review.

Such a creative book, sharing all the many different things humans can be, by crossing it over as factual with living things that share a similar trait. It was really clever and creative.

I really enjoyed reading this it was so full of facts about animals, trees, stars, other aspects of nature. I didn’t know a fair amount of these facts so was very happy to learn about them through reading this.

It comes with some of the most wonderful full page illustrations that you can’t not love looking at, seeing the topics they are talking to comparing to a child on each page. I really enjoyed the combination of the illustrations and the story blended together.

It had so many great aspects to it within this book, from it being wonderful to look at, to a simple but sweet story, to so full of fascinating facts. This is a book I think would be great in schools, it has so much to offer and readers would learn a lot from it.

You are Younger than a Star by Katherine Halligan and with illustrations by Sophia O’ Connor is a beautiful book.

A book that helps young readers and listeners to connect with the natural world and make some sense as to who they are. The prose follows a pattern whereby readers are compared to the wonders of the natural world through the use of antonyms: light and heavy; cool and warm; fast and slow etc..

Each natural wonder is described and their attribute is compared against the size, height etc if children individually or in groups. The descriptions of some of the creatures might need some reading from adults but they are full of information. The watercolour imagery gives the book a magical feel.

But most important of all is that the young readers recognise themselves in relation to the natural world- being part of it- and not seen as something different or better .but ultimately sharing what makes us all special.

A bedtime book for enquiring minds, a book to talk about with children and a wonderful one to share in a EYFS class or KS 1 class.